This is the real story of the game. However, I doubt that anyone else has will write it.

Something will have to give. Either Jack goes back to the bench or Jack or Bargnani should be traded. As long as Jack, Weems and to some extent DeRozan are on the court together Bargnani will be frozen out of the offense. If he is not scoring he is basically worthless

I make no judgment call on whether the Raptors would be better off trading Jack or Bargnani or sending Jack along with Weems to the second unit. It will play itself out one way or the other. I doubt that Jack and Weems will change their thinking and Bargnani is not all of sudden going to be a defensive wiz and rebounder par excellence.

I am right now waiting approval on using a photo of the Raptors mascot in my header/background. In the meantime I may or may not put up an article or two.

You can see from the blog description what the blog is about.

In order to devote time to this new blog as well as at least one other that I have in mind to setup, in addition to my NBA 25-15 blog I will be reducing my posting efforts here.

I feel it is time to spread my wings on this. It is far more important for me to be able to express my perspective in a "quieter" environment that it is to be heard in a noisier one.

I know that I am not a writer but more of a numbers guy. However, since these are my blogs and I am writing for my own gratification and not to drive traffic to them it really doesn't matter on how well I write. What matters is that I will now be able to express my opinions about hoops related issues that interest me in a "quieter" environment.

I will still remain logged in to Raptors Republic and reading, however I will just not be posting so much in the future as I have in the past.

I imagine that many of my articles on Raptors180 will present an opposing view to articles and posts that are written here.

One thing I should note just for your info. I used to travel a lot overseas to parts of Asia. Long flights from CA for sure. Someone once told me how to fight jet lag. I tried it and it worked every time.

1. When flying on long flights that span several meals do not eat period. Just drink water.

2. When you arrive at your destination look at the clock and if it is time for breakfast go eat breakfast after arriving or if it is time for lunch go each a lunch meal. I tried it and it worked every time. No jet lag and no need for drugs to keep me awake or put me to sleep.

The reason is that food and eating are what regulate the body cycle. So if I didn't eat on the flight and waited until I arrived my body would go on the cycle of the type of meal I ate. Of course for this to work you have eat what would be considered a meal similar if not the same in carbos, protein etc that you would normally eat for that meal. After eating the meal the body then thinks it is on that time cycle. So if it is a dinner meal you will fall asleep when you should according to local time. If it is a breakfast meal your body will think it is the beginning of the day.

I didn't and won't post this information on the forum.

However I find it interesting and thought that you might also.

P.S. I wonder if he is using a drug like Melatonin which may be perfectly legal in Canada to address something like jet lag which doesn't need drugs to be addressed, is he taking any other drugs to help him function, especially drugs that he shouldn't?

I am just raising the question and as far as I am concerned it stops here for me.

Password stolen? Who cares! With Google’s new authentication enhancements for Google Apps, domain owners now have a new option to make authentication more reliable by throwing your mobile device into the mix.

If the feature is activated, your password won’t be good enough to log into your account. You need both your usual password, and a code that Google will SMS you after you try logging in. If that sounds super annoying to you, you will be happy to know that the feature can be avoided if you mark a computer as “trusted”. This is a great feature that Google Apps users get for free — and with pretty much no setup.

In order for someone to compromise an account (from an untrusted computer), they will need both the users password, and their cell phone — a combination that surely won’t happen very often.

Previously only on Web of Trust (WOT) was this site listed as unsafe. The site has now been added by Google as an unsafe website.

Firefox now blocks me from entering the site. I am posting this message using an IE tab addon in Firefox.

Here is the Google message that I got when I asked for information on why the site was considered safte "Malicious Attack Site"

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If you don't know who Jeff Ma is, you haven't been paying attention. Ma is the mind behind the famous card-counting MIT blackjack team that won millions of dollars in Las Vegas, the team that had a book written about them and a movie made about them.

But if you didn't know that Jeff Ma has consulted with the Portland Trail Blazers regarding advanced statistics for years, you are forgiven. For whatever reason, the second most famous person with recent ties to the organization (trailing only Paul Allen, of course) has flown almost totally under the radar here in Rip City, even though he's a mainstay in the advanced stats community, co-founded Citizen Sports and is regularly mentioned on TrueHoop.

It just so happens that Ma wrote a book this summer called, The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business. He discussed portions of the book, including a great exchange with Jerry West, with Henry Abbott here.

Another great exchange in the book comes when Ma meets with Kevin Pritchard, Tom Penn and the Blazers scouting staff in Portland, shortly after Pritchard was promoted to GM. Ma writes that he "realized what an important delicate meeting it would be, as I was sure the people in that room would be predisposed to doubt all that I was prepared to sell." He then describes being pelted with questions about his analysis which led to Pritchard stopping the meeting to ask, "How do we get your rankings to look more like ours?"

Ma writes...

Click through for a transcript of our full conversation, which ran roughly 30 minutes this morning. Ma discusses Pritchard, Paul Allen, the consulting work he provided to the Blazers, the team's emphasis on pace, Pritchard's emphasis on a "big three" and, of course, who his numbers recommended drafting in 2007: Greg Oden or Kevin Durant.

"If people that use analytics to predict player performance in the NBA, using performance analytics, meaning what they did in college, and they tell you they had Oden ranked higher than Durant, they are full of crap," Ma said this morning. "There are very few statistical measures that would have rated Oden's system in college better than Durant's. Oden was injured his entire career, that one season at Ohio State. He had to shoot free throws left handed, was not efficient, didn't have a great statistical season.

"Our numbers absolutely said they should pick Durant. It wasn't even close."